Up-Close and Personal With Chicago's Most Infamous Criminals | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Contact Privacy Policy Terms of Use John Dillinger, center, handcuffed to Deputy Sheriff R.M. Pierce during Dillinger's murder trial hearing in Crown Point, Indiana. Though his trial was scheduled for March 12, 1934, Dillinger would escape from the Crown Point prison on March 3. ( Chicago Tribune ) Police question James Earl Ray, who was shot while trying to elude police on May 6, 1952. He was given a two-year sentence for robbing a taxicab. In 1968, Ray would assassinate Martin Luther King, Jr. ( Chicago Tribune ) An undated photo shows Al Capone, center, in a Chicago courtroom. ( Chicago Tribune ) Defense attorney Clarence Darrow argues for life sentences for Richard Loeb, 18, and Nathan Leopold Jr., 19, on trial for the murder of 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks. In hopes of avoiding the death penalty, Darrow pleaded both defendants guilty. ( Chicago Tribune ) Coroner Herman N. Bundsesn, right, and Lt.

Col. C.H. Goddard, look at machine guns allegedly used in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, in which seven men with supposed ties to organized crime were gunned down in a Chicago garage. ( Chicago Tribune ) Lts. Frank Ballou and Samuel Peterson test out a new metal bulletproof shield. The shield's inventor, Elliot Wisbrod, is the man holding it. ( Chicago Tribune ) Joseph Schuster, center, a paroled convict, stands in a police lineup. Schuster was identified by robbery victims as the shooter in the killing of off-duty policeman Arthur Sullivan. ( Chicago Tribune ) Mary Wazeniak, a 34-year-old mother from Poland, was the first women in Illinois convicted of selling fatal moonshine. Her moonshine, which she sold from her home-turned-saloon, is known to have killed one person, earning her the nickname "Moonshine Mary," with the press. ( Chicago Tribune ) Diver James P. Bodor, 23, finds a shotgun on Aug. 5, 1949 after dragging the bottom of a channel at 107th Street and Archer Avenue.

( Chicago Tribune ) Joseph Holmes, left, and Jack Wilson, two admitted participants in the July 29, 1925 daylight holdup of the Drake Hotel, located in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood. ( Chicago Tribune ) William "Three Fingered Jack" White is led back to his jail cell during his 1926 trial for the murder of Forest Park policeman Edward Pflaume in 1925. White was tried twice for the murder, and both times the charges were overturned. ( Chicago Tribune ) The gambling table of Frankie Pope, a well-known gambler and owner of a still during Prohibition, is shown in a courtroom. ( Chicago Tribune ) Emily Strutynsky, a Ukrainian schoolteacher, shot Rev. Basil Stetsuk in St. Michael the Archangel Church on Oct. 7, 1923. ( Chicago Tribune ) Strutynsky shot Rev. Basil, she told authorities, because he was "such a bad leader of the Ukrainians." She spent four years at Illinois' Kanakee State Hospital of the Criminally Insane before escaping and jumping to her death in the Kanakee River on July 9, 1927.

( Chicago Tribune ) State highway policemen are dispatched to restore order after 1,500 convicts rioted in the Stateville Prison in Joliet, Illinois on March 18, 1931. ( Chicago Tribune ) In 1956, 21-year-old Arthur Bauer, left, confessed to killing 18-year-old Rosemary McCarthy with the hatchet that Assistant State's Attorney Robert Cooney, right, is holding. ( Chicago Tribune ) Up-Close and Personal With Chicago's Most Infamous Criminals "Gangsters & Grifters," a book by the Chicago Tribune, recalls a time when photographers had unprecedented access to the world of crime smithsonian.com December 2, 2014 The photography archive of the Chicago Tribune lives five stories underground, beneath the Tribune Tower on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Many of the photo negatives stored there have, for all intents and purposes, been forgotten to history—printed once, maybe a century ago, and then filed away in envelopes sometimes labeled in pencil with a date and subject, or sometimes not labeled at all.

The negatives, 4x5 glass plates or acetate negatives, come from a speed graphic camera—the world's first press camera, forever immortalized in film and popular culture by its slightly-cumbersome box shape and large flash bulb. But for all its drawbacks—weight, size, balance—the speed graphic camera was the first to allow photographers the mobility needed to capture scenes in the field, as they unfolded. For photographers working in Chicago through the early and mid-20th century, there was perhaps no beat more intriguing than the city's bustling criminal underbelly. Related Content Buy When Tribune photo editors Erin Mystkowski, Marianne Mather and Robin Daughtridge set out to catalog the archive's vast expanse of 4x5 negatives, they weren't necessarily looking for just crime photos. First, they simply wanted to get through the archive—cataloging 60,000 of the more than 300,000 negatives kept in storage—in order to merely get an idea of what was there. What was there, it turned out, was a lot of vintage crime photographs—some of which had never been seen outside of the walls of the Tribune.

Together, the editors researched the photographs origins alongside the stories that they told—who was Moonshine Mary? Who were the "hoodlum" or "holdup man" mentioned in the caption? After careful vetting, they compiled a collection of vintage crime photos, ranging in date from the early 1900s to the 1950s, into the book Gangsters and Grifters: Classic Crime Photos from the Chicago Tribune . The book is a remarkable testament to a bygone era of photojournalism—one when photographers enjoyed unbarred access to crime scenes and courtrooms. As such, the photographs stun in their intimacy with the grotesque—some of the book's most profound photos are close-up shots of corpses, slumped behind the wheel of a car or strewn on the ground after an outburst of mob violence. The photos depict the other side of the process as well—policemen examining evidence, searching underwater for a murder weapon or testing the new technology of a bulletproof shield by unloading a pistol at the shield's inventor. "The access in these photos is really astounding and so far different from what we’re used to today.

The evolution of ethics—both on the part of the police force and journalists—has evolved so much," Mystkowski says. "In the book, you'll see photos of officers holding up a sheet so they can show the body at the crime scene. That's a kind of photo that we would never be allowed to take, and if a photo like that were taken now, we would never run it. Back then, there was a different attitude of what journalism meant—what it meant to tell a story." Such free access wasn't the particular luxury of photojournalists, however—everyone had amazing access to crime scenes and even corpses. One particularly fascinating photograph in the book shows the body of John Dillinger, Public Enemy Number One at the time of his death in 1934, outstretched at the Cook County Morgue. Behind a glass barrier stand two women—in bathing suits—leaning against the glass, mere inches from Dillinger's rigid body. "That particular photo has a very interesting background story," says Mather.

"It was taken at the Cook County Morgue, and they actually had a big problem—the police officers weren't policing the body, so people were walking in and touching his body and even making death masks of his face with no authorization. There were hundreds of people lined up outside of the morgue to see the body of Public Enemy Number One...I think it's so interesting that there wasn't any quarantining or setting up police tape at that time." But Mather and Mystkowski's favorite photograph is neither of a corpse nor of a crime scene—it's of a young beer runner named Al Brown being led into court. "It's not one of the best particular photos, but it's the process of how we found it that made it really exceptional to me," Mather says. "We had done a lot of crime research, and we were looking up things for Prohibition, and this [particular photo] was labeled 'Beer runner, Al Brown.' It looked kind of boring when we held it up to the light, before we scanned it in, but I thought that I would just scan it in anyway, to see what it looked like.

When it came to life on the computer screen, we realized 'This is Al Capone.' Because we weren't looking for it, we didn’t realize what we had." Al Capone, who went by the alias Al Brown, being led into criminal court. This photograph is undated. ( Chicago Tribune ) When asked if in modern day photojournalism—with its stringent ethics and focus on privacy—photography has lost anything, both Mather and Mystkowski pause. "We love these photos because of the access that we don’t have now: the courtroom scenes of the wailing wives as their husbands are getting sentenced to death, we don’t see that same emotion these days—or we see it in different ways," says Mather. Mystkowski agrees. "Part of what makes these photographs so fascinating is that they are a glimpse into these really harsh moments in someone's life. It can be the crime scene, which is gory and difficult to look at, or it can be an emotional reaction to it, but it does have this immediacy that is sometimes hard to achieve nowadays, for better or for worse." Like this article?

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 what do we call this country Albania Al Capone - Biography - IMDb Al Capone Jump to: Overview (5) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trivia (26) | Personal Quotes (6) Overview (5) 5' 7" (1.7 m) Mini Bio (1) Infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone was born in the tough Williamsburgh section of Brooklyn, NY, the fourth of nine children of Italian immigrants from Naples.

Capone was a born sociopath. In the sixth grade he beat up a teacher and promptly quit school. He picked up his education from the streets, "making his bones" when he joined the notorious James Street gang. This was run by Johnny Torrio , who later graduated Capone into the even more notorious Five Points gang. It was here that Capone became friends with Lucky Luciano , another who would become a hallmark in the '30s gangster era. By his late teens Capone had been hired by Torrio and Frankie Yale as a bouncer at a saloon / brothel in Brooklyn. In 1918 he was involved in a bar fight over a prostitute with hoodlum Frank Galluccio. Gallucio went after Capone with a knife, resulting in Capone's picking up the moniker by which he would be known for the rest of his life--"Scarface" (although that word was NEVER used in his presence). Capone, however, would attribute the scar to wounds he received in battle while fighting with the famous "lost battalion" in France during World War I (the fact that Capone never spent one minute in the army was a minor point, apparently).

By 1919 he was already suspected by New York police of at least two murders, so he moved to Chicago to work under Torrio's uncle, "Big" Jim Colosimo , a Chicago gangster who ran a string of brothels. Torrio and Colosimo had a dispute over bootlegging during the Prohibition era--Torrio was for it and Colosimo was against it. Torrio hatched a plot with Capone to have Colosimo "rubbed out" and they got their old pal Frankie Yale to do it. Over the next few years the new Torrio-Capone regime went to war with rival bootlegging gangs in Chicago. In 1924 they killed Charles Dion O'Bannion , head of the Irish North Side gang. That didn't end the war, however, which went on for several more years. Capone's younger brother Frank died in a hail of rival gangsters' bullets in 1924. In February 1925 Torrio, who had been badly wounded in a shootout, decided to retire. He told Capone, "It's all yours".

At the tender age of 26, Al Capone found himself in control of a sophisticated crime organization with 1,000 gunmen at his command and a $300,000-a-week payroll. He was up to it, however, and made a smooth transition from a simple gun-toting leg-breaker, pimp and killer to a "business executive" (his business card stated that he sold "second-hand furniture"). It was estimated that at one point he had approximately half of Chicago's police department on his payroll, and his reach extended to the highest levels of Chicago's city government and even into the Illinois legislature (he was also suspected of having the Illinois governor "in his pocket"). He controlled the local political process by terrorizing voters into voting for candidates he picked. So great was his power that he claimed he "owned" Chicago, and once publicly assaulted the mayor of nearby Cicero--who was on his payroll--on the steps of City Hall for doing something without his clearance, while the local police looked the other way. Capone was probably the first "equal-opportunity" mob boss.

While many of his fellow Italian and Sicilian gangsters would only hire those from their own ethnic group, Capone hired Jews, Irish, Poles, Slovaks, blacks--as long as he considered them trustworthy, they could work for Capone. He even purged the Chicago organized crime scene of "Mustache Petes", the old-time Sicilian gangsters who he didn't think were capable of running a "modern" crime organization. Capone ran Chicago's gambling, prostitution and bootlegging empire, getting rich giving people what they wanted. He was soon wildly popular among the citizenry and was even cheered at the ballpark, while "respectable" citizens like President Herbert Hoover were not. Capone absorbed smaller gangs into his own--sometimes by negotiation, other times by gunfire--extending his reach to outside the Chicago environs and expanding his empire even further. He was, however, always concerned for his own safety and surrounded himself with trusted bodyguards (including Frank Gallucio, the man responsible for his nickname, "Scarface").

Several attempts were made on his life by rival mobsters--one time a convoy of cars full of gangster Hymie Weiss' gunmen shot up a restaurant at which Capone was dining; the place was destroyed, but Capone came through unscathed. Another time would-be assassins poisoned his soup, but his luck held out again. On Valentine's Day in 1929 Capone ordered the bloody "St. Valentine's Day Massacre". His underlings found out the location of the warehouse of his rival George Moran (aka "Bugs" Moran) and that Moran was to attend a meeting there at a particular time. Capone sent a carload of his gunmen dressed as police officers to the address. Once there they lined up the seven men they found, but Moran wasn't among them; he was on the sidewalk heading towards the building when he saw the "police car" pull up in front and he quickly ducked into a nearby store. Nevertheless, Capone's gunmen machine-gunned them to death. Following the massacre (when Moran was later asked who he thought was responsible for the murders, he replied, "Only Capone kills like that"), public opinion about Capone began to change.

He was not above killing on his own, either. When he was informed that his bodyguards John Scalise and Albert Anselmi were part of an assassination plot against him, he decided to take care of the matter himself. To put their minds at ease, he threw a banquet in their honor. While delivering a glowing testimonial to them, Capone suddenly pulled out an Indian club and beat both men to death. Although local and state authorities had been trying to bring down Capone for years, the federal government finally managed to do it by prosecuting him for income-tax evasion. He was tried, found guilty and sentenced to 11 years in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, GA. In 1934 he was transferred to Alcatraz, a federal prison on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay that was set up to hold the nation's worst criminals. He never finished out his sentence, though. In 1939 he was paroled because of the ravages of neurosyphilis, a disease he contracted while running Torrio's and Colosimo's whorehouses. He lived the last eight years of his life as a virtual zombie at his estate in Florida, his brain almost totally destroyed by the disease.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Sujit R. Varma Spouse (1) The Four Deuces (2222 South Wabash) The Four Deuces (2222 South Wabash) The 2200 Wabash block was in the heart of Chicago's South side Levee. Gamblers and roughnecks would drink, gamble and whore away their hard earned wages for moments of fleeting pleasure. Many establishments could be found in this immediate area, but none would become as infamous as the Four Deuces. Chicago's Southside 1925. In it, we can see the Lexington, Four Deuces, Metropole and Colosimo's. The Four Deuces is circled in white. (Photo courtesy of Mr. Joe Walters) John Torrio and Al Capone made it part of history. Few realize the history that had been there before them and remained there after their infamous run. Four Deuces as it is today. It was brought to my attention by Randall Wright, a savvy Southside historian, that Wabash was widened over the years, and that some of the addresses may have shifted in the process.

So this is the general area of where the Four Deuces once stood. (Photo courtesy of Mr. Joe Walters) 1906 before the street was widened. Buildings to the right of this shot were all torn down. Photo is incorrectly labeled at the left and it should be read as Northern 22nd not Southern. ( Info courtesy of Bryan Lloyd, Randall Wright and correction to caption made by Patricia Garza) The addresses shifted over time due to the buildings that where knocked down in 1927. ( Info courtesy of Bryan Lloyd and Randall Wright) Photos taken from my Chicago Daily Newspaper collection. My special thanks to Randall Wright, Bryan Lloyd and Joe Walters for their expertise and encyclopedic knowledge of Southside Chicago and it's levee. Let's take a look back; Built right after the great Chicago fire, circa 1880, the 2200 block of buildings were sized at 87 x 159 feet. The 2222 Wabash four story building was home to four families living in separate quarters. Some of these families either moved out or had their dwellings foreclosed which would explain the several auctions that were offered as early as 1883.

Contents of the one floor of the place was being put at auction by the Elison,Flersheim company. Bedding, laundry, kitchen, crockery and glass were all priced to go. Then in 1891, the same fate had happened to another family there. 1883 advertisment for furniture auction being held at 2222 South Wabash 1891 auction being held at 2222 South Wabash. In 1901, the building was then owned by Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. They had acquired it in an foreclosure auction for $48,000 with other adjoining properties. Not long into 1901, Soloman Friedman, a Russian/Pole born in England, becomes proprietor of the 2222 Wabash. He runs a saloon there. The New Levee as the Wabash block was referred to, began sprouting up saloons en masse. In 1903, Mayor Harrison sent out notice to the owners of Wabash saloons, that unless they respected the midnight closing law, they would be shut down for good and have their liquor licenses revoked.

Soloman Friedman was one of them. Many others that same year on Wabash, faced indictments for that closing law and for selling policy tickets. Families and law abiding citizens began to move out of the Wabash area, which was now becoming seedier by the day. Mask from the facade at 2222 Wabash, now in the garden at the Brooklyn museum. Prostitution,gambling and drinking were the main sports to be found there. Sol Van Praag, a first ward politician who also dabbles in gambling, has himself a cigar store at 2226 South Wabash. Politicians such as Van Praag and Hinky Dink Michael Kenna, have cigar stores and saloons which usually serve as fronts for other nefarious adventures. One in which visiting gents can meet up at the establishment to shoot the bull, drink, and then go secretly in back to leave their money at a friendly and sometimes not so friendly game of craps or cards. Van Praag's address next door to the Four Deuces. (Mario Gomes collection) Van Praag's place is often raided. 17 people are arrested there in 1917 for playing craps.(dice).

Robberies, holdups and killings are becoming frequent in and around the 2200 block. Since July 16 ,1919 ,Van Praag has rented out one of his premises to Marty Guilfoyle, who runs the cigar store at 2220 with gambling in back. Martin Guilfoyle In September of 1919, Guilfoyle shoots and kills a hardcore hardcase by the name of Peter Gentleman. Gentleman is a slugger, robber, pickpocket and heavy drinker. He walks in the cigar store and threatens Guilfoyle with a gun and slaps him around. This all happens as Guilfoyle is playing cards with friends. Guilfoyle runs out with the others and waits till Gentlman's tirade subsides. He re-enters his establishment and resumes his card game. Gentleman comes back and throws a brick breaking a cigar case. This time Guilfoyle was prepared and whipped out an automatic and shot Gentleman who died later at hospital. Gentleman who grew up with Guilfoyle denies being shot by Guilfoyle.

Guilfoyle has no clue why Gentleman did this and stated when asking him "Why do you want to kill me?" Gentleman replied "Because I don't like you." Peter Gentleman End of 1919 to beginning of 1920,John Torrio ( See Johnny Torrio ) takes over the whole building of 2222 South Wabash. An 1922 investigation by newspapermen,whom have entered the place incognito, show that there are two entrances at the Four Deuces. One is through the saloon on the first floor and the other is through a doorway leading into a corridor just south of the saloon entrance. If entering through the saloon one goes through the barroom to the rear behind a partition. Once behind the partition, a left turn shows a stairway leading to the second floor. It is here that the girls are found in various rooms. A reported 30 girls are in Torrio's employ at the time. The surroundings are very crude. Although brightly lit, no furniture or wall embellishments are to be found. Crudely made benches line the walls where men wait their turn for fleshly pleasures.

During the investigation, 43 young men were present. Some sitting on benches and the remaining standing. Many girls were busy in the rooms while three untaken girls were enticing the waiting men. An obese madame in a rocking chair kept telling the men to "Come on boys; pick a girl." Al Capone makes his way to Chicago early to mid 1920. He is sent to work for John Torrio via New York's Frank Uale (Yale). Capone is on the lam from New York for murder. The Four Deuces building is named for it's (Wickersham report) Torrio sets him up as bouncer, capper / roper. The latter means he stood outside the Four Deuces calling out for men to step inside as there was some nice girls inside. Capone quickly elevates to manager and part owner in less than 2 years. He opens an office next door as the profits from the joint quickly mutiply. His decoy is a used furniture store under the name of Al Brown.

Another investigation that was reported by crime fighter Virgil Peterson, shows that the premises have since changed from it's first inception and while it still sports the saloon on the main first floor, but now the second and third floor gives way to a newly furnished gambling establishment. Prostitution has now moved up to the top fourth floor. A steel barred gate separates the office and the saloon. old dice with logo "Four Deuces" (Mario Gomes collection) There is also talk of a trap door and basement where rival gangsters and non payers are treated to death or near death experiences. One can only wonder. Al Capone becomes boss of the place while Torrio takes a European trip. Things look up until about 1923-24 when they have to close up shop due to a newly elected mayor William E. Dever, one who will have no part of this type of establishment. They are raided often and the higher ups cannot be bought as was the case with the past corrupt Mayor William Thompson. The Torrio /Capone clan find a solution. They move their operations into gangster friendly Cicero. There they will run their operations in the Hawthorne Hotel and at other various roadhouses.

While this transition is made, they still maintained an office at 2146 South Michigan Avenue. 2222 Wabash Circa 1930. (X - Marks the Spot and the Wickersham report) In later years, the once infamous Four Deuces becomes a simple apartment building. It only occaisonally makes the news. On April 9th,1932, it is reported that a 73 year old woman at 2222 South Wabash apartments decides to end her life in kerosene filled bathtub that is self ignited. Bricks from the site of the Four Deuces. (Mario Gomes collection with special thanks to Joe Walters and Bryan Lloyd) In July of 1946, a main floor occupant is fined for rat infestations due to the unclean lane at the back of 2222 Wabash. On January 3,1952, the building is violating the city's smoke ordinance as thick black smoke billows out of it's chimney. The once infamous address will not live much longer, as age and neglect to the buildings on the block become increasingly evident.

On March 22,1958, Bertha Stamps was robbed of $60 in front of her apartment building at 2222 South Wabash. Four Deuces bricks remanants and photo of 2222 circa 1950's (Special thanks to Joe Walters and Bryan Lloyd) (Mario Gomes collection) Date of the building's demise has been surmised by a visit of a New York architectural collector by the name of Ivan Karp. In a 1967 article, Mr. Karp mentioned that he had removed a architectural mask from the front of 2222 South Wabash when he happened to be passing through Chicago. This was at the time of 2222 S. Wabash's destruction. He brought the mask to New York with him. My research has pinpointed him in Chicago March of 1964, which is probably when the building went down. My special thanks to Mr. Bryan Lloyd for his Karp reference which helped pinpoint the date of the Four Deuces destruction, and for his assistance on researching the Four Deuces.

Remenants of the Four Deuces The following are back views near elevated train tracks (EL). Four Deuces view from the back. (Photo courtesy of Mr. Joe Walters) Another angle. (Photo courtesy of Mr. Joe Walters) Possible concrete remains of the Four Deuces. (Photo courtesy of Mr. Joe Walters) Another angle. (Photo courtesy of Mr. Joe Walters) First Posted May 2009 Articles about Capone - latimes 'Boardwalk Empire' recap: Nucky tipped to drug plot; Capone survives November 11, 2013 | By Alan Eyerly The lure of big money from heroin pits Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) against an odd mix of gangsters on “White Horse Pike,” Episode 46 of HBO's “Boardwalk Empire.” “Something's wrong,” warns speakeasy owner Sally Wheet (Patricia Arquette), tipping off Nucky that partners Vincenzo Petrucelli (Vincenzo Amato) and Meyer Lansky (Anatol Yusef) concealed heroin in a rum shipment leaving Florida. Outraged Nucky intercepts his trucks at White Horse Pike in New Jersey.

Providing backup are Nucky's turncoat brother Eli (Shea Whigham) Advertisement Mamet To Write New Capone Film June 24, 1985 | JACK MATHEWS, Times Staff Writer Eliot Ness, the headstrong tax cop who sent Al Capone to Alcatraz, is making a comeback, this time on the big screen. Ness, and his incorruptible team of investigators, will be busting Big Al, Frank Nitti and other Prohibition-era vermin in a feature version of "The Untouchables" at a theater near you, perhaps as early as Christmas, 1986. ENTERTAINMENT Fall TV Preview: From 'Sleepy Hollow' to 'Ravenswood' to 'Atlantis' September 13, 2013 | By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Television Critic The Fall Season is here, people. And though premieres will happen up and down what is still anachronistically called a dial, the season remains mainly the domain of the broadcast networks - which seem bent for the moment not on aping cable TV, as many think they should, but rather distinguishing themselves from it. By getting classic.

Which is not necessarily to say good - though not necessarily to say bad, either. FOR THE RECORD: Fall TV preview: A capsule description of the new DirecTV drama "Full Circle" in the Sept. NEWS Capone's Alleged Hide-Out in Tour February 10, 1994 | LAURIE K. SCHENDEN Romantics will think about hearts and flowers on Valentine's Day, but others might recall something a little less heartwarming: the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The man allegedly behind the machine guns was Al Capone. The mobster was also allegedly the man behind the wrought-iron "C" on the chimney of a Fontana house, a 1920s winter residence used by an unnamed Chicago snowbird and the feature of a six-house historic homes tour on Sunday. NEWS Al Capone's Home Fails to Win Landmark Status October 29, 1988 | Associated Press A bid to give landmark status to the home of gangster Al Capone has been rejected by a local review panel after pleas from Italian-American organizations.

The 3-0 panel vote Thursday is expected to be appealed by groups seeking to place Capone's home on the National Register of Historic Places. NEWS Capone Prison Register Sells for $6,875 November 12, 1989 | Associated Press The admission sheet checking Al Capone into a Pennsylvania prison sold for $6,875 at an auction of memorabilia of the famous and infamous. The admission sheet, signed "Alphonse Capone," was bought Thursday by a Pennsylvania collector, said Herman Darvick, owner of the Herman Darvick Autograph Auctions. On it, the gangster is listed as "Alphonsus Capone alias Al Brown alias Scarface," Darvick said. NEWS NAMES IN THE NEWS : Capone Autograph Auctioned November 10, 1989 | From Times Staff and Wire Service Reports The admission sheet checking Al Capone into a Pennsylvania prison sold for $6,875 at an auction of memorabilia of the famous and infamous. The admission sheet, signed "Alphonse Capone," was bought Thursday by a Pennsylvania collector, said Herman Darvick, owner of the Herman Darvick Autograph Auctions.

On it, the gangster is listed as "Alphonsus Capone alias Al Brown alias Scarface," Darvick said. NEWS Al Capone's Old Headquarters to Become Hotel October 22, 1989 | CHARLES J. GANS, ASSOCIATED PRESS A real estate developer is getting some help from the Feds in his quest to transform Al Capone's former headquarters, once an opulent palace of sin, into a respectable hotel for business travelers. The Lexington Hotel, on Chicago's Near South Side, was the posh Prohibition Era haven from which Capone ruled his criminal empire in the late 1920s and early '30s, before he was sent to federal prison on an income tax evasion charge. CALIFORNIA | LOCAL Capone heads to Alcatraz via L.A. August 21, 2006 Aug. 21, 1934: The "Al Capone special," a heavily guarded prison train, passed through Los Angeles on its way to delivering its most infamous passenger to Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Additional security officers were aboard the train as it moved slowly across the city about 6:15 p.m.

to the Southern Pacific yards opposite San Fernando Road. Despite efforts to keep the train's movements secret, several hundred people showed up at the rail yards to await its arrival, The Times reported. ENTERTAINMENT Night: A whiskey-soaked visit to the Blind Donkey January 8, 2013 | By Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times The Enabler has been fixating on love. What is it? How to find it? What feeds it? The answer to this last question, she is quite certain, is whiskey. Which is why on a recent evening she found herself contemplatively sipping a glass of 127-proof Four Roses cask strength single barrel bourbon at Pasadena's new whiskey bar, the Blind Donkey. The Blind Donkey is the work of the beer-minded men behind Verdugo Bar, the Surly Goat and the Little Bear, and as such it exudes a pleasing masculinity.

ENTERTAINMENT Movie review: 'Hidden Love' March 4, 2011 | By Kevin Thomas Isabelle Huppert, surely the most formidable French screen actress of her generation, is attracted to playing women so driven that they sometimes, as in Michael Haneke's masterful "The Piano Teacher," succumb to madness. In "Hidden Love," director Alessandro Capone's adaptation of Daniele Girard's novel, Huppert's heroine, Danielle, has just failed in a suicide attempt and ends up institutionalized and in the care of psychiatrist Dr. Dubois (Greta Scacchi), who attempts to break through to her mute patient. CALIFORNIA | LOCAL L.A. tells gangster Al Capone to get lost February 6, 2011 | By Steve Harvey As freezing weather descended on the Midwest last week, the New York Times characterized Chicago as "a city that shrugs at snow. " That may well be, but in December 1927, during another frigid period, one Chicagoan said "enough.

" Al Capone, the 28-year-old kingpin of bootlegging, decided to take a vacation in a balmy burg he had never visited: Los Angeles. Sounding like an unappreciated public servant, he told reporters before leaving, "Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best way they can. I'm sick of the job. " He complained about his image. NATIONAL 'Get Capone' book could help solve 1939 killing January 13, 2010 | By Alejandra Cancino Chicago police agreed Tuesday to take a look at the 70-year-old unsolved slaying of Edward J. O'Hare, a lawyer who may have cooperated with federal authorities against Al Capone. The unusual request came from Chicago politician Edward Burke in advance of the release of a book on the infamous mobster. Burke said his intention was simply to set the record straight that it wasn't Eliot Ness who brought Capone to justice.

Without O'Hare's cooperation, Burke said, "there never would have been a case against Capone." ENTERTAINMENT Quick Takes April 17, 2009 | Associated Press He never sang to the feds, but it turns out Al Capone had a song in his heart. All it took was a stint in Alcatraz to bring it out. Now, more than 70 years later, the tender love song that the ruthless crime boss penned while sitting in the pen is being recorded and released on CD. And an inscribed copy of the music and lyrics to "Madonna Mia" is up for sale at $65,000. "It's a beautiful song, a tear-jerker," said Rich Larsen of Caponefanclub.com. For the last eight months or so, Larsen and a producer have been recording the song, with two singers backed by a mandolin, accordion, violin, piano and stand-up bass. CALIFORNIA | LOCAL Capone heads to Alcatraz via L.A. August 21, 2006 Aug.

21, 1934: The "Al Capone special," a heavily guarded prison train, passed through Los Angeles on its way to delivering its most infamous passenger to Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. Additional security officers were aboard the train as it moved slowly across the city about 6:15 p.m. to the Southern Pacific yards opposite San Fernando Road. Despite efforts to keep the train's movements secret, several hundred people showed up at the rail yards to await its arrival, The Times reported. NEWS Raze Capone House? A Criminal Idea, Chicagoan Says October 17, 1988 | ANN CONNORS --The late Mayor Richard J. Daley didn't care to keep around reminders of Chicago's infamous 1920s gangsters, obscuring the site of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and demolishing the Metropole Hotel from which Al Capone ruled from 1925 to 1928. But a city official wants to make at least one Capone hangout untouchable, proposing that Capone's longtime South Side home be nominated for the National Register of Historic Places.

ENTERTAINMENT Quick Takes April 17, 2009 | Associated Press He never sang to the feds, but it turns out Al Capone had a song in his heart. All it took was a stint in Alcatraz to bring it out. Now, more than 70 years later, the tender love song that the ruthless crime boss penned while sitting in the pen is being recorded and released on CD. And an inscribed copy of the music and lyrics to "Madonna Mia" is up for sale at $65,000. "It's a beautiful song, a tear-jerker," said Rich Larsen of Caponefanclub.com. For the last eight months or so, Larsen and a producer have been recording the song, with two singers backed by a mandolin, accordion, violin, piano and stand-up bass. Music Producer Dies in Crash September 4, 2004 | Eric Malnic, Times Staff Writer Brazilian music producer Tom Capone, nominated this year for five Latin Grammys, died in a motorcycle crash just hours after being shut out at the Latin Recording Academy awards show, officials said Friday.

Capone, 38, was pronounced dead at 3:25 a.m. Thursday after his rented motorcycle and a small sedan collided at Tyrone Avenue and Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks, police said. Capone was thrown from the motorcycle. The 23-year-old woman driving the car was unhurt. NATIONAL The Law Has Its Way in Al Capone's Old Haven January 10, 2003 | Eric Slater, Times Staff Writer The former town president of Cicero, the infamous Chicago suburb where Al Capone once fled for protection from the law, was sentenced to more than eight years in prison Thursday for her role in a racketeering conspiracy that bilked the community of $12 million. Betty Loren-Maltese, a flamboyant 53-year-old known for her quirky politics, heavy makeup and substantial hairdos, was also ordered to make restitution of more than $8 million and was fined $100,000.

Question: What infamous person sometimes used the pseudonym Al Brown
Answer: Al Capone